Baylor New Venture Competition

Baylor New Venture Competition

Baylor University's entrepreneurship program is excited to host the seventh annual Baylor New Venture Competition in 2018.

The Baylor New Venture Competition on-campus event is a two-day business plan competition and elevator pitch competition promoting student entrepreneurship. The competition showcases student created, managed, and owned ventures. Competitors from accredited universities across the globe receive expert feedback, coaching, and a prize package of cash and crucial in-kind business support services, to launch and grow their ventures.

The program, underwritten by an anonymous gift to Baylor University and the Hankamer School of Business, provides students with an immensely impactful and immersive experiential business competition.

The next Baylor New Venture Competition event will take place in February 23 - 24, 2018 at the Foster Campus for Business and Innovation at Baylor University.

Want to catch all the action? Click below to register your attendance to see who wins the grand prizes!

Congratulations to our other winning teams!

Second Place and $35,000:
MITO Material Solutions, Oklahoma State University

Third Place and $20,000:
RHOBACK Activewear, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Dell Award and $12,500:
StudyTree, Drexel University

Power of Business Award and $6,000:
Redcedar Products, Oklahoma State University

RealFoundations Award and $5,000:
acion, llc, University of Louisville

Honorable Mention and $1,500 each:

acion, llc - University of Louisville

FroYo Xpress - Purdue University - Main Campus

Pocketutors - Baylor University

Redcedar Products - Oklahoma State University

StudyTree - Drexel University

Supervize - North Carolina State at Raleigh

SwineTech Inc. - University of Iowa

Twazer - Claremont McKenna College

Wavio - Brigham Young University

2017 Special Award Through Anonymous Donor!

A gentleman and his wife, who wanted to remain anonymous, were so impressed by the competition and the quality of all 12 finalist teams, that they donated an additional $2,000 to award to each of the 12 finalist teams!

2017 Finalists!

The 12 finalists for the 2017 Baylor New Venture Competition were:

acion, llc - University of Louisville

FroYo Xpress - Purdue University - Main Campus

Grow Bioplastics - University of Tennessee - Knoxville

MITO Material Solutions - Oklahoma State University

Pocketutors - Baylor University

Redcedar Products - Oklahoma State University

RHOBACK Activewear - University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

StudyTree - Drexel University

Supervize - North Carolina State at Raleigh

SwineTech, Inc. - University of Iowa

Twazer - Claremont McKenna College

Wavio - Brigham Young University

2017 Elevator Pitch Competition

The 3 Award Winners were:

First Place and $1,500:
Grow Bioplastics - University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Second Place and $1,000:
Pocketutors - Baylor University

Third Place and $500:
MITO Material Solutions - Oklahoma State University

View highlights from the 2017 Baylor New Venture Competition

Congratulations again to all the teams who competed at Baylor University on February 24-25, 2017 for $179,000 in cash awards, a total package of $275,000 in cash and in-kind business services!